RTP-area local music and culture

["Music Director WXDU" <music AT wxdu.org>]

Top 88.7 for week of June 10, 2007:

1.    14...Battles...Mirrored...Warp
2.    14...Various Artists...Cult Cargo: Grand Bahama Goombay...Numero
3.    12...Betty Davis...Betty Davis & They Say I'm Different...Light in the
Attic
4.    10...Earthless...Rhythms from a cosmic sky...Tee Pee
5.    10...Porter Wagoner...Wagonmaster...Anti-
6.    9...Datarock...Datarock Datarock...Nettwerk
7.    9...Gondoliers...s/t...Earie Records
8.    9...Dungen...Tio Bitar...Kemado
9.    9...Powerhouse Sound...Oslo/Chicago Breaks...Atavistic
10.    9...The Ladybug Transistor...Can't Wait Another Day...Merge
11.    9...Balkan Beat Box...Nu-Med...Jdub
12.    8...Matthew Dear...Asa Breed...Ghostly International
13.    8...Standing Nudes ...Ghost Story...True Panther
14.    7...Meg Baird...Dear Companion...Drag City
15.    7...Cinematic Orchestra...Ma Fleur...Ninja Tunes
16.    7...Still Flyin' ...Za Cloud EJ...Antenna Farm
17.    7...Big Business ...Here Come the Waterworks...Hydra Head
18.    7...Boris with Michio Kurihara...Rainbow...Drag City
19.    7...Paul Shapiro...It's in the Twilight...Tzadik
20.    7...J Dilla...Ruff Draft...Stones Throw
21.    7...The High Strung...Get the Guests...Park the Van
22.    7...Ananda Shankar...Ananda Shankar and His Music...Fallout
23.    6...Stark Naked...s/t...Fallout
24.    6...Various Artists...Tamburitza! From the Balkans to America:
1910-1950...Arhoolie
25.    6...Mice Parade...Mice Parade...Fatcat Records
26.    6...Dr. Dog...We all Belong...Park the Van
27.    6...Elliot Smith...New Moon...Kill Rock Stars
28.    6...Robbie Fulks ...Revenge!...Yep Roc
29.    5...GHQ...Crystal Healing...Three Lobed
30.    5...Various Artists...Just One More: A tribute to Larry
Brown...Bloodshot
31.    5...The Clientele...God Save The Clientele...Merge
32.    5...Spanish Harlem Orchestra...United We Swing...Six Degrees
33.    5...Ulrich Schnauss...Quicksand Memory EP...Domino
34.    5...Boom Bip...Sacchrilege EP...Lex
35.    4...Eccodek...Voices Have Eyes...White Swan
36.    4...Fisk Industries...EPs and Rarities ...Mush
37.    4...Black Moth Super Rainbow...Dandelion Gum...Graveface
38.    4...Marhaug/Asheim...Grand Mutation...Touch
39.    4...Various Artists...Messthetics #103...Hyped2Death
40.    4...Various  Artists...Lope/Yellow6/Absent Without
Leave/Kimonophonic...BSBTA
41.    4...Lindstrom & Prins Thomas...Reinterpretations...Eskimo
42.    4...Andrew Pekler...Cue...Kranky
43.    4...White Ghost Shivers...Everyone's Got 'Em ...S/R
44.    4...Hellers...Singers...Talkers...Swingers...& Doers...Fallout
45.    4...Spiritualiaires of Hurtsboro, Alabama...Singing Songs of
Praise...CaseQuarter
46.    4...Rosebuds...Night of the Furies...Merge
47.    3...Voxtrot...S/T...Playlouder Recordings
48.    3...Job for a Cowboy...Genesis...Metal Blade
49.    3...Exploding Customer...At Your Service...Ayler Records
50.    3...Rose Maddox (w/the Vern Williams Band)...Beautiful
Bouquet...Arhoolie
51.    3...Ben + Vesper...All This Could Kill You...Sounds Familyre
52.    3...Tinariwen...Aman Iman...World Village
53.    3...Frog Eyes...Tears of the Valedictorian...Absolutely Kosher
54.    3...Belly Boat...Dear Robert Hanoy...Not Not Fun
55.    3...Filthybird...Southern Skies...Red Strings
56.    3...500 MG...Apocatastisis...Three Lobed
57.    2...Titan...A Raining Sun of Light & Love, For You & You...
58.    2...Nawang Khechog...Tibetan Meditation Music...Sounds True
59.    2...Part Chimp...Cup...Monitor
60.    2...Madagascar...Goodbye East, Goodbye West...Western Vinyl
61.    2...KTL...KTL 2...Editions Mego
62.    2...Philipp Quehenberger...Phanton in Paradise...Editions Mego
63.    2...De Phazz...Days of Twang...Phazz-a-delic
64.    2...Electric Soft Parade...No Need to be Downhearted...Better Looking
65.    2...Midtown Dickens...Oh Yell!...307 Knox
66.    2...Robert Ambien and the UFQ...the Unentified Flying
Quartet...Edgetone
67.    2...Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles...Diamonds in the
Dark...Sugar Hill
68.    2...Wax Poetic...Brasil...Nublu
69.    2...Noiseshaper...Real to Reel...Miracle Sounds
70.    2...Black Rebel Motorcycle Club...Baby 81...RCA
71.    2...Pterodactyl...S/T...Brah
72.    2...Mary D. Williams...Blood Done Sign My Name...S/R
73.    2...George Jones & Merle Haggard...Kickin' Out the
Footlights...Again...Bandit Records
74.    2...Mad Juana...Acoustic Voodoo...Azra
75.    2...Machine Go Boom...Music For Parents...Collectible
76.    2...V/A...SC100...Secretly Canadian
77.    2...Love Trio...Love Trio in Dub...Nublu
78.    2...Various Artists...Urban Africa Club...Out | Here
79.    2...Eames Era...Heroes + Sheroes...MDF
80.    2...Throbbing Gristle...Part Two - the Endless Knot...Industrial/Mute
81.    2...Brad Dutz...When Manatees Attack...pfMENTUM
82.    1...Ensiferum...Victory Songs...Candlelight
83.    1...Hidden Hand...the Resurrection of Whiskey Foote...Southern Lord
84.    1...12 Cent Donkey...Where There Are No Roads...Gulcher
85.    1...Various Artists...Family Album...Grass Roots Records
86.    1...Jandek...The Ruins of Adventure...Corwood
87.    1...Double Image...Moment to Moment...S/R
88.    1...David Torn...Prezens...ECM
88.7    1...Fennesz Sakamoto...Cendre...Touch

World:
1.    4...Eccodek...Voices Have Eyes...White Swan
2.    5...Spanish Harlem Orchestra...United We Swing...Six Degrees
3.    7...Ananda Shankar...Ananda Shankar and His Music...Fallout
4.    9...Balkan Beat Box...Nu-Med...Jdub
5.    6...Various Artists...Tamburitza! From the Balkans to America:
1910-1950...Arhoolie
6.    2...Nawang Khechog...Tibetan Meditation Music...Sounds True
7.    3...Tinariwen...Aman Iman...World Village
8.    2...Wax Poetic...Brasil...Nublu
9.    2...Noiseshaper...Real to Reel...Miracle Sounds
10.    2...Love Trio...Love Trio in Dub...Nublu

RPM:
1.    9...Datarock...Datarock Datarock...Nettwerk
2.    8...Matthew Dear...Asa Breed...Ghostly International
3.    5...Ulrich Schnauss...Quicksand Memory EP...Domino
4.    5...Boom Bip...Sacchrilege EP...Lex
5.    4...Fisk Industries...EPs and Rarities ...Mush
6.    4...Various  Artists...Lope/Yellow6/Absent Without
Leave/Kimonophonic...BSBTA
7.    4...Lindstrom & Prins Thomas...Reinterpretations...Eskimo
8.    2...Philipp Quehenberger...Phanton in Paradise...Editions Mego
9.    2...De Phazz...Days of Twang...Phazz-a-delic
10.    1...12 Cent Donkey...Where There Are No Roads...Gulcher

Loud Rock:
1.    10...Earthless...Rhythms from a cosmic sky...Tee Pee
2.    7...Big Business ...Here Come the Waterworks...Hydra Head
3.    7...Boris with Michio Kurihara...Rainbow...Drag City
4.    5...GHQ...Crystal Healing...Three Lobed
5.    3...Job for a Cowboy...Genesis...Metal Blade
6.    3...500 MG...Apocatastisis...Three Lobed
7.    2...Titan...A Raining Sun of Light & Love, For You & You...
8.    2...KTL...KTL 2...Editions Mego
9.    1...Ensiferum...Victory Songs...Candlelight
10.    1...Hidden Hand...the Resurrection of Whiskey Foote...Southern Lord

Jazz:
1.    9...Powerhouse Sound...Oslo/Chicago Breaks...Atavistic
2.    7...Paul Shapiro...It's in the Twilight...Tzadik
3.    3...Exploding Customer...At Your Service...Ayler Records
4.    2...Robert Ambien and the UFQ...the Unentified Flying
Quartet...Edgetone
5.    2...Brad Dutz...When Manatees Attack...pfMENTUM
6.    1...Double Image...Moment to Moment...S/R
7.    1...David Torn...Prezens...ECM
8.    1...Ethnic Heritage Ensemble...Hot N' Heavy...Delmark
9.    1...David S. Ware Quartet...Renunciation...AUM
10.    1...COMA...Ornamental Urban Shrubbery...Edgetone


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Andrea Stewart and Sarah Harlan
Music Directors
WXDU 88.7 FM
Duke University
Box 90689
Durham, NC 27708
music AT wxdu.org
919-684-2957